Hermann Loose
Software Engineer at Tacto
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolHermann Loose is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience and a decade at Google, now building full-stack products with a frontend focus from Munich. He combines strong domain modeling and architecture skills with a passion for delightful UX, regularly running user research to inform design and implementation decisions. At Google he owned integrations such as a VS Code extension for Critique and contributed frontend rewrites and database migrations, demonstrating an eye for long-term maintainability. An active contributor to major open-source projects like Visual Studio Code, he has shipped UI improvements around comments and editor visuals that benefit large developer communities. Comfortable leading projects and navigating ambiguity, Hermann excels at turning complex workflows into intuitive, robust systems.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
visual-studio-code10
editors10
javascript10
electron10
typescript10
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
front-end-development10
vscode10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
apidoc9
ide9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hermann primarily contributed to the Visual Studio Code project by implementing features related to comments and the comment panel. Their work involved integrating comment thread states, including resolved and draft statuses, and adding functionality such as "Expand All" actions within the comments view. Furthermore, the user modified code related to comment glyphs and overview ruler colors, improving the user interface and visual representation of comments within the editor. They also updated API definitions for comment-related features.
visual-studio-codeelectronvscodevscode-extensionmicrosoft
hermannloose/kpr2009
Jan 2010 - Apr 2010
Contributions:105 commits in 2 months
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